Tectnoic plates Crossword
Across
- 4. The largest of the earth's layers
- 8. The plate containing Argentina (2 words)
- 9. The plate that covers most of Asia
- 12. The Juan de ____ plate
- 14. The total number of tectonic plates
- 15. The type of Boundary that is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving apart from each other
- 17. The smallest plate (3 words)
- 18. The plate covering most of the south
- 20. The largest tectonic plate
Down
- 1. A large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the Earth
- 2. The plate covering most of the West side of the South American Plate
- 3. Long, narrow depressions on the seafloor (two words)
- 5. The outermost rigid layer of earth
- 6. The number of major tectonic plates
- 7. The number of minor tectonic plates
- 10. The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate
- 11. A fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
- 13. the plate containing Greenland (2 words)
- 16. Plate _________
- 19. The type of Boundary when one plate slides beneath the other one